June 24,1938
From the archives Throughout J''99, Commonweal /ws bt'fii cekbwting it* 75th ennizvrsary. / lore from the June 24, 1938 if sue is an excerpt from the lnaguzine'* "Week bit ___ ...
...All is not yet lost, by any means...
...On the other hand, the Hen-leinists [the pro-German part) ] are still treating with the Czech government, being in receipt of part of its final minoi ities proposal...
...b\ wise agreement, this proposal i> kept secret until the groups concerned have considered it—but the mo*>t elementary political sense must tell us that it will be a proposal as favorable as the government tan possibly make it and still remain a i»ov ernmenl...
...This might very reasonably be construed as notice that Germany means to move in...
...Finally, the direct warning of France to Germany, and the energetic implications of England's latest moves, will not, we think, go unregarded...
...On the other hand, too, the Slovak minority, long bitterly dissident, appears to be responding to Premier Ilodza's efforts at conciliation...
...It comments on Hitler's overtures to Hie ethnic Gcr man povuhicc of Czechoslovakia'* inudeten wgion...
...The present moment in Chechoslovakia—a moment of perilous balance following upon its series of municipal elections—is one in which disastrous possibilities of many sorts may be computed....For instance, the Berlin press as well as official Reich spokesmen have resumed their denunciatory :one, lately laid aside—mingling, with unconscious iron\, protests against Czech "terrorism" with exultation at the results of an election which manifestly, ?\ those very returns, was free and unterrorized...
...Thk Editors Commonweal 6 October 8,1999...
...and if this rnpproihement, very considerably overdue, is effected, it will remove the Slovaks from the category of possible allies of the Sudeten group in trouble making...
...lore from the June 24, 1938 if sue is an excerpt from the lnaguzine'* "Week bit ___ Work" feature titled "The Czech Election...
Vol. 126 • October 1999 • No. 17
